The Many Shells of The Egg of Khelos – Decks for Standard and Wild

Because the deck only runs two minions, anything that draws a minion can tutor for the pieces, and you can also summon them directly with Oaken Summons. As long as Umbra hits the board first, it does not matter how the Egg arrives.

When everything went wrong, I even took a chance by playing the Egg first and then summoning Umbra and popping the Egg with a buff spell and an attack on the following turn. Maybe I could have found a way to get to the clean combo from that position too, but I was under a lot of pressure and thought I’d get there one turn faster by playing the Egg first. The deck is very, very fast.

Egglock (Standard)

The deck that has had the biggest effect on Standard since the balance patch is Egglock. Egglock is currently a top-tier deck in the overall meta, although it has some clear weaknesses too, which the meta can move to exploit if it becomes popular enough. Protoss Priest and aggressive decks like Aggro Demon Hunter cause problems when you try to pop your eggs in peace.

Egglock is currently in the process of finding out its optimal form or potentially splitting into two sub-archetypes. Both directions share their love for The Egg of Khelos and its use as the primary win condition. You want to make copies of the Egg at its various stages, preferably the later stages, and pop them open at once or one by one until the opponent cannot do anything about them anymore.

The deck uses Holy Eggbearer to tutor The Egg of Khelos as needed. The slower variant uses cards like Elise the Navigator, Eliza Goreblade (to give all Eggs attack), and Carnivorous Cubicle (to produce copies of the Egg). The faster version uses Abusive Sergeant (to give attack to an early Egg and pop it) and Archdruid of Thorns (to create copies of the Egg): cheaper cards that enable you to do more with the Egg sooner.

Regardless of the variety, Eternal Layover combined with Ultralisk Cavern forms a key board clear combo that also advances your Eggs. You can also Conflagrate, Eat! The! Imp!, Hellfire, or sometimes Corpsicle or Drain Soul your Egg. The deck has a lot of ways to advance the Egg to the later stages and ultimately Khelos.

While the differences are minor, the faster Thorns list is better against Death Knight and Paladin, whereas the slower variant is stronger against Shaman and Warlock.

The slower variant was the first to gain widespread attention based on this list by NoHandsGamer and an earlier list by ClarkHELLSCREAM.